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Highly Allochthonous

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You're not missing much Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.

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Seismology@home

There's an interesting news story in Nature* about a distributed computing project with a seismological twist. The proposed aim of the Quake-Catcher project is to hack and collate data from laptop accelerometers - designed to protect the hard drive when...

Mildy shook up

An earthquake in the UK? What's that about?

New Zealand gets a festive shaking

When I was out in New Zealand doing fieldwork for my PhD, I spent most of my time based in Gisborne, a sleepy little town on the east coast of the North Island. Over Christmas, it seems that Gisborne was...

The heart of the fault zone

For all that we currently know about earthquakes and faulting, seismology remains primarily a descriptive science. We can tell where an earthquake occurred, and how powerful it was, but we still don't understand why some ruptures trigger failure over a...

Of aftershocks and tsunamis

Questions arising from the Indonesian quakes

Who needs science when you have pointless gadgetry?

Those clever Japanese have done it again - whilst seismologists look in increasingly unlikely places for a method of reliably predicting earthquakes, they've produced a little box which provides a timely warning of impending doom: A broadband and communications provider...

Earthquake in Peru

And it's a big one - magnitude 8.0 according to the USGS. The preliminary moment tensor solution indicates a shallowly dipping thrust fault, with a rupture depth of 33 km. So this looks like a subduction thrust earthquake (the convergent...

Ill-served by press releases?

Should scientists add a 'lay statement' for public consumption to their papers?

Lusi: not man-made after all?

Was the mud volcano triggered by an earthquake rather than poor drilling practice?

Earthquake activity in Indonesia

There have been some reports of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake shaking things up in eastern Indonesia. More info from the USGS: The media report that there was a tsunami warning issued, which seemed a little odd: you're not going to...

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